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Book SynopsisExploring contemporary challenges and opportunities for the realisation of Decent Work, this edited collection reviews the origins of the concept and helps to demonstrate its working in practice. Using a Decent Work lens to explore the realities of eroding work conditions in typical and atypical work, the analyses presented here argue that urgent action is required to address these issues for the benefit of individual workers, and society as a whole.
Prepared by researchers and collaborators associated with the Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, this volume provides insights from an exceptional blend of authors presenting high-quality research from multiple disciplines including economics, labour market studies, organisation studies, sociology, psychology, career development and education. These unique and wide-ranging contributions position Decent Work as valuable to important questions about the future of work, and emerging interdisciplinary research about work.
Addressing changes to today’s work and employment relationships – including the roles of governments, employers, and trade unions – this volume offers suggestions for how public and private sector policy and practice can support the realisation of Decent Work, while also theorising the concept’s contested nature, and exploring urgent and practical possibilities to secure fair and decent working lives for all.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Prologue – In Search of Decent Work; Marilena Antoniadou, Mark Crowder, Fiona Christie, and Kevin Albertson
Chapter 2. What is Decent Work? A Review of the Literature; Lucy Brill
Chapter 3. The History and Future of Work; Kevin Albertson, Christina Purcell, and Richard Whittle
Chapter 4. The Development of the Decent Work Scale as a Cross-Cultural Measure of Decent Work; Vanessa Dodd and Ciaran Burke
Chapter 5. Decent Work: Gender and Equal Opportunity Policies and Outcomes; Maria Allen
Chapter 6. The Role of International and Integrated Sustainability Frameworks in Enhancing Decent Work and Employee Value; Janet Haddock-Fraser
Chapter 7. Entrepreneurship Skills Needs and Policies: Contribution to Decent Work; Sumona Mukhuty and Steve Johnson
Chapter 8. Indecent Work? The Rise of Digital Platform Work in France and the UK; Christina Purcell and Reece Garcia
Chapter 9. Musicians’ Work: Creativity, Community and Insecurity; Jason Woolley and Fiona Christie
Chapter 10. Structural Barriers to Achieving Decent Work in the Greek Hospitality Industry: A Critical Employment Relations Approach; Orestis Papadopoulos
Chapter 11. Epilogue – Preparing for the “New Normal”; Mark Crowder, Marilena Antoniadou, Kevin Albertson, and Fiona Christie
